Dear President Obama,

on 8th April 2014 Lumos together with UK Member of the European Parliament brokered a round table in the European Parliament. The Title: A Global Approach to Ending the Institutionalisation of Children:

"How the EU and the USA can join forces to help children in adversity around the world" Prof. Neil Boothby was presented as your special advisor on Children in Adversity. However according to my information, the post of the Special Advisor was at that time formally held by Rob Horvath from  USAID. Could you kindly clarify whether Neil Boothby had your authorisation to speak on behalf of you? If you d need further information kindly provide me an email adress, so that i can email the relevent documents. Sincerely Arun Dohle www.againstchildtrafficking.org

See Ask the EU

http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/762/response/2971/attach/html/2/DG%20ELARG%20BDT%2088%202007%201341.pdf.html

Delayed until after VideoConference with US

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Personal note RP

Adoption: A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, comes to India to trace her origins. Has Sneha seen her maternal grandmother?

A fifteen-year-old Spanish girl has come to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in search of her biological mother, wanting to see her at least once before returning to Spain.

A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, has come to India to trace her roots. She was adopted by a Spanish couple, and Sneha has been living with them in Spain.

A daughter who came looking for her mother

Adoption: A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, comes to India to trace her origins. Has Sneha seen her maternal grandmother?

A fifteen-year-old Spanish girl has come to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in search of her biological mother, wanting to see her at least once before returning to Spain.

A Spanish girl named Sneha, without any information about her background, has come to India to trace her roots. She was adopted by a Spanish couple, and Sneha has been living with them in Spain.

A daughter who came looking for her mother

Kalanguak Absalonsen was born in Greenland in 1971 and adopted a few years later by a Danish family without her mother's informed consent, cutting her off from her Inuit culture for more than 50 years.

Now she wants Denmark to compensate her for her wrongful adoption.

"My mother didn't know what it meant when she signed the paper, that she wouldn't be allowed to have any contact with me," the 53-year-old told AFP in her Copenhagen apartment.

In 1975, her mother was a young widow with five children, struggling to make ends meet in Greenland at a time when Denmark had a strategy of cultural assimilation for its former Arctic colony, today an autonomous territory.

Her mother's employer, a Dane, suggested she consider putting some of her offspring up for adoption.

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Swathed in a full-length mink coat, Miss Russell stepped off a TWA plane an hour late and feeling more than a little air sick. 

But she quickly recovered tier vivacity over a sandwich and cup of coffee at the Frankfurt Casino and chatted with yours truly, who is now convinced that Jane is "as advertised." 

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